ShadowPlay: A Revolution In Game Capture, Coming Soon To GeForce Experience

Capturing footage from your favorite games can reduce frame rates quite considerably at native resolutions, in addition to reducing level and texture load speeds if capturing to the hard drive holding the game. Furthermore, some apps record using uncompressed formats, filling your drive with gigabytes of data.

If you own a GeForce GTX 600 or 700 Series GPU, you’ll soon have a new option for creating high-quality captures, courtesy of an upcoming GeForce Experience module we’re calling ShadowPlay. Completely free to use, ShadowPlay leverages the H.264 encoder built into Kepler graphics cards to record max quality, native resolution gameplay footage that is compressed and encoded on the fly, before being automatically saved as a YouTube-friendly .mp4.

ShadowPlay settings within the GeForce Experience interface.
ShadowPlay promises to revolutionize game footage capture by leveraging the high-speed, integrated Kepler encoder that also powers NVIDIA Shield PC game streaming. And because it's a dedicated hardware encoder, you'll be able to capture gameplay footage continuously without tanking your framerate.

In addition to traditional game capture, ShadowPlay users can activate Shadow mode, which continually records and saves the latest action to a user-definable buffer. If you pull off an outrageous mid-air maneuver in Battlefield 3, simply hit a predefined hotkey and your moment of glory is instantly saved to a .mp4, ready for publication on YouTube.

Perfect for the majority of gamers who don’t require a capture of every single second of action, ShadowPlay’s innovative new mode ensures you never again say, “I wish you could have seen that!” With ShadowPlay enabled, every special moment can be captured and quickly shared, demonstrating your pro-gaming skills to your best friends.

and another trick from Nvidia. I don't see why this can't be used on fermi cards. Nvidia is just money hungry.

Here we go..

People....there are reasons for this.

As mentioned in other posts, New architecture, new tech that only the GTX 600/700 series can do.

This is not another trick....

It's the same with drivers and issues on older cards. Nvidia is just now starting to take advantage of the 600/700 series.

Issues will arise in older hardware as they are not top priority right now.
Nvidia is reviewing the GTX 400/500 series bugs out of pure honest business. IF they really wanted to, they could do what AMD did and start dropping regular support on older cards be it DX10 or 11 on older architectures.

Be happy Nvidia cares about their customers enough to even go out of their way to ask for card donations to try to reproduce issues and solve them. They are paying the shipping fee's both ways at that.

Let's stop the bashing. If you want to use this upgrade your cards.

I don't want to hear this crap about thread resurrection either. There is only one thread dedicated to this so far, and it should stay right here if common sense is to be had.

Looks decent itself. Not like ultra high end youtube production level but high level.
Now I only need to configure it properly when I'm recording since I have games installed across 2 hdds and the hdd loading lag sucks :S